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Originally posted by creole I would bet that TweakUI can manage your systray.

Not the version I have.

Try this first:
As mentionned before, most items in the system tray will have an option in their preferences to disable them (temporarily or permanently).

Only then try this:
For those that don't have that option, I found these on www.download.com:

CleanTray 2.5 - "CleanTray is a Free utility to view and delete those system tray programs from your registry so they do not start up each time. It also will allow you to delete startup entries from your INI files."

ActiveX System Tray Icon 1.1 - "ActiveX System Tray Icon is a tool for displaying a desired icon in the system tray. You can load the icon from a file, set it up in the Icon Properties field, choose predefined windows icons and cursors, make it blink, and so on."

There are many more apps in the search. There was a really good one that I came across many many moon cycles ago that let you right click on a program on your task bar to move it into the system tray, but I don't remember what it was called.